October 3Birthdays & History

On this day: October 3 in history

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1. 2457 BCGaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.Asia
2. 52 BCGallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.Europe
3. 42 BCLiberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost.Europe
4. 382Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.Europe
5. 1392Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.Europe
6. 1574The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.Europe
7. 1683Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.Asia
8. 1712The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.Europe
9. 1739The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War.Middle EastEurope
10. 1789George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day.North America
11. 1792A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.EuropeLatin America
12. 1862American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth begins as Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn attack Union defenses led by General William Rosecrans around Corinth, Mississippi.North America
13. 1863The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.North America
14. 1873Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.North America
15. 1912U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.North AmericaLatin America
16. 1918Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.Europe
17. 1919Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.Latin AmericaNorth America
18. 1929The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.Europe
19. 1932The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.Middle EastEurope
20. 1935Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.AfricaEurope
21. 1942A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.Europe
22. 1943World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.Europe
23. 1946An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39.North America
24. 1949WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.North America
25. 1951Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.Asia
26. 1952The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.EuropeOceania
27. 1957The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.North America
28. 1962Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.North America
29. 1963A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.Latin America
30. 1981The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.Europe
31. 1985The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.North America
32. 1986TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.North America
33. 1989A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.Latin America
34. 1990The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.Europe
35. 1991Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.Africa
36. 1993An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.North America
37. 1995O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.North America
38. 2008The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.North America
39. 2009Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.EuropeAsiaMiddle East
40. 2013At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.Europe
41. 2015Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.Asia
42. 2021Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.Europe
43. 2022Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Europe
44. 2023Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general electionNorth America
45. 2024Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of IndiaAsia

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